White citizens at a property tax town meeting
White citizens at a property tax town meeting on April 7, 1947. They are meeting in the playhouse at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. When the city was developed to house workers at the WW2 nuclear facility, Southern Congressmen demanded it be a racially segregated community. Photo by Ed Westcott. (BSLOC_2014_13_188)
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11002690
Media ID
45260412
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3000px x 2445px
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Credit
Everett Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Everett Collection
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